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AlgiPharma is Recruiting

AlgiPharma announces two new positions avaliable. AlgiPharma is interested to hear from high caliber, energetic candidates to join the team at our Norwegian office in Sandvika. Preference will be given to those candidates already resident in Norway or who are already eligible to work in Norway. The deadline for applications is the 12th May 2019 […]

Technology Strategy Board (Innovate UK) & Innovation Norway – New Funding Success

Building on the previous success with the AlgiFerm project, AlgiPharma, together with leading experts in fermentation at the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI, Redcar, UK), FMC Biopolymer, and SINTEF have secured additional funding from the UK’s Technology Strategy Board (now Innovate UK) and Innovation Norway for further investigation on microbial production of AlgiPharma’s promising new alginate oligomer drug candidate, OligoG. The study will focus on developing methods for scaling-up microbial fermentation production of OligoG at CPI.

Technology Strategy Board & Innovation Norway – New Funding Success 

A collaboration project initiated by AlgiPharma, together with leading experts in fermentation at the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI, Redcar, UK), has secured funding (2.700.000 NOK) from the UK’s Technology Strategy Board and Innovation Norway for a feasibility study on microbial production of AlgiPharma’s promising new alginate oligomer drug candidate, OligoG.

The effect of alginate oligosaccharides on the mechanical properties of Gram-negative biofilms

Powell LC, Sowedan A, Khan S, Wright CJ, Hawkins K, Onsøyen E, Myrvold R, Hill KE, Thomas DW. Biofouling. 2013 Apr;29(4):413-21. doi: 10.1080/08927014.2013.777954. External link to Pubmed.gov Abstract The influence of a novel, safe antibiofilm therapy on the mechanical properties of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii biofilms in vitro was characterized. A multiscale approach employing […]